On 3/18/2013 14:55, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Brian Willoughby wrote: > >> I believe that shell does handle wildcards on all Unix variants, >> including OSX. > > Yes. > >> Since Windows does not handle them, I suggest that the >> main flac code not be littered with code that's not necessary on the >> primary platforms. > > No, the flac code will not be "littered with code that's not necessary > on the primary platforms". > > There will be some windows specific code in a new file, a bunch of > replacements of existing fopen() calls with flac_fopen() (similarly > for chmod and utime) and the main function for the flac and metaflac > executables will have an additional: > > #ifdef _WIN32 > if (!convert_argv_to_utf8(&argc, &argv)) > flac__utils_printf(stderr, 1, "ERROR: yada yada\n"); > #endif > > This is a small un-obtrusive change that I fully support. > > I would however like to see it sooner rather than later so we can get > this damn thing released :-). >
Before anyone does anything, see __wgetmainargs <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff770599.aspx>. It can expand wildcards. Since it already provides argc/argv/env, it is more a less a drop-in replacement for the main() arguments.
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